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The Aldrichian chairs were professorial positions at the University of Oxford during the nineteenth century, endowed by George Oakley Aldrich. He left the residue of his will to Oxford, to found in equal parts three chairs. By the 1850s the funds amounted to over £12,000. The handling of the chairs, however, was not of free-standing professorships, and by the end of that decade the funds had been repurposed.[1]

Chair of Chemistry

The initial holder of the Aldrichian Chair of Chemistry was John Kidd, from 1803. He resigned when the Regius Chair of Physic became vacant on the death of Christopher Pegge in 1822.[2] Kidd made sure he was succeeded as Aldrichian Professor by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny. For financial reasons Daubeny held onto the chair until 1854, when a college stipend he held was increased.[3]

The third and final holder of the Chair was Benjamin Collins Brodie, elected in 1855. It was renamed the Waynflete Chair of Chemistry in 1865.[4] The funding was transferred in the 1870s to create the Aldrichian Demonstrator in Chemistry.[5]

Chair of Physic

From 1803 to 1824 Robert Bourne was the first Aldrichian professor of physic.[6] The title is also given as "medicine", and the endowment was described as "annexed" to the Regius Chair of that area.[7]

The endowment was also supposed to support an anatomy professor.[8] In practice the anatomy funds were added to those from the benefaction of Richard Tomlins, to provide an anatomy reader.[9] The anatomy funding was assigned to the Linacre Chair in 1858.[10]

George Oakley Aldrich

George Oakley Aldrich, portrait c.1750 by Pompeo Batoni.
Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Aldrich matriculated at Merton College in 1739, named registered as George Oakeley Aldrich. He graduated B.A. in 1742, M.A. in 1745, M.B. and M.D. in 1755.[11] He went on the Grand Tour, and was in Rome in 1750 with John Neale, then an undergraduate at Merton, later parish priest at Tollerton, Nottinghamshire.[12][13][14] He married in 1753 Anne Bland.[12]

In the 1770s Aldrich moved on from residence at Mansfield Woodhouse, to Cockglode House near Edwinstowe in Sherwood Forest, which he began to build in 1774, and occupied under lease from the Duke of Portland from 1777.[12][15]

Notes

  1. ^ "The historical register of the University of Oxford". Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1900. p. 70.
  2. ^ Clark, J. F. M. "Kidd, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15511. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Goddard, Nicholas. "Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7187. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Brock, W. H. "Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, second baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3485. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Brock, M. G.; Curthoys, Mark C. (1997). Nineteenth-century Oxford. Clarendon Press. p. 675 note 120. ISBN 9780199510160.
  6. ^ Brock, W. H. "Bourne, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ Moore, James J. (1878). The historical handbook and guide to Oxford. Thos. Shrimpton and Son. p. 80.
  8. ^ Townsend, George Henry (1867). The Manual of Dates: A Dictionary of Reference to the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records. Frederick Warne&Company. p. 739.
  9. ^ Oxford, University of; Ward, G. R. M.; Heywood, James (1851). Oxford University Statutes. William Pickering. p. 238.
  10. ^ "The historical register of the University of Oxford". Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1900. p. 60.
  11. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Aldrich, George Oakeley" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  12. ^ a b c "The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire > Articles from the Thoroton Society Newsletter:". thorotonsociety.org.uk.
  13. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Neale, John (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  14. ^ "Neale, John (1755–1781) (CCEd Person ID 18016)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  15. ^ Gray, Adrian (2008). Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries. Phillimore. p. 69. ISBN 9781860774829.
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